GLIMPSE OF A CPA'S MIND

One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the province with the purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from the trip, the father asked his son. “How was the trip?” “IT was great Dad!” “Did you see how poor people can be?” asked his father. “Oh yes”, said the son. “So what did you learn from the trip?” asked the father. The son answered. “I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who se...

I suppose everyone has one particular summer vacation that stands out more than any other. For me, it was one summertime when I celebrated my seventh birthday. Lego blocks were the “in” that time. Mama and papa knew how much I wanted to have even the starter set. So for my seventh birthday, they promised to give me one. However, in January of that year, my father was laid off and my mother, who was a bank employee, became the bread winner of a family of five children. Papa then stayed home doing the house chores because we had to give up our house help. While waiting for a job opening from a couple of overseas companies, he would stay in the garage, cutting and nailing together pieces of wood. For months, I would hear him pounding on wood every night. When my birthday came, there was no party, as was previously planned. Mama and papa brought me to church for mass that morning and we went home for breakfast. After breakfast, Papa then gave me a big box with a blue ribbon...

I think "Earth Hour" is not as successful as expected. I'm very sad about that, because most of my neighbors did not participate last saturday. And that means to say, they are not earthy persons... they are not earth lovers. I really am very disappointed about that! I also saw last saturday, that one of my neighbors burned their garbages during the so called "Earth Hour". I think, that embarrassing moment was so very disgusting. Its not an earth hour, I guess. Its an Earth destruction!!! I think we should have an earth day. An earth day to every poeple, to every being, and an earth day to our beloved mother earth! If we really love the planet we called home, we sho0uld care for it. No matter how heavy your sacrifice you will burden, we still have to do it and I think we have to make it just for our mother earth. So please... to all poeple who visit my blog. You are blessed by God to saw this messages, and now you have the responsibility about the proper care not...

Article X , section 15 , of the Constitution states that, “there shall be created Autonomous Regions in Muslim Mindanao and in the Cordilleras consisting of provinces, cities, municipalities and geographic areas sharing common and distinctive historical and cultural heritage, economic and social structures and other relevant characteristics within the frame works of this Constitution and the national sovereignity as well as territorial integrity of the republic of the Philippines” . As we clearly seen, the Philippine Constitution authorizes the creation of an autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao, and not a “virtual state”, like the proposed Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE), which is provided in the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Based on my analysis, I opposed the inclusion of other cities in Mindanao and its barangays within the Bangsamoro Juridical entity as provided in t...